venezuela freaks out and calls the white house. i d say the president s got results today. maduro was not freaking out. by the way, that was a perfect response from the white house. maduro was not freaking out. he was calling the white house to stage a publicity stunt, which as anderson said this helps him, the imperialist pigs against us. that s the message. he was doing a publicity stunt. he got a gift from donald trump. right. maduro is a thug and an autocrat. and now he is a dictator. the one thing he needs is the great american colonial power. their currency is called a bolivar. they re all about standing up against imperialism. for a the president who should be standing for democracy, he is bolstering maduro by giving him an external threat to rally his country guest. the white house s response is pitch perfect. we should not be talking to maduro.